I’ve only caught glimpses of it from one of the on-ramps to westbound I-94. 16, 2017 at 8:46 p.m., the time of the accident. Over the years, families of the victims have gathered at a black granite memorial near I-94 and Middlebelt to mark the anniversary of the disaster. She spoke publicly about the accident for the first time in 2013 as part of a documentary on sole survivors of disasters. Relatives took her in, protecting her from the media throughout her childhood. She lost her parents and her 6-year-old brother. Romulus firefighter Ron Thiede found the 4-year-old girl alive, still buckled in a booster seat strapped to her airline chair. The crash killed 156, including two people on the ground, the flight crew, and every passenger except one - Cecilia Cechan. The report says another contributing factor to the crash was an unexplained power outage to the jet’s takeoff warning system, which failed to alert the flight crew the plane was not ready to fly. “The National Traffic Safety Administration determines that the probable cause of the accident was the flight crew’s failure to use the taxi checklist to ensure that the flaps and slats were extended for takeoff.” - NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, page 68. Investigators believed human error most likely caused the crash. Rick Pluta was a reporter for United Press International at the time. It was almost two years before I got my first real job in radio. I was nearing the end of my journalism internship at WDIV-TV.
My senior year at the University of Michigan was about to begin.
The siren, I presume, was from one of the area fire departments, a signal to its first responders to report for duty. via Phoenix had crashed seconds after takeoff from Metro Airport. A few miles from where we stood, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 from Detroit to Santa Ana, Calif. We heard no weather warnings, just news - terrible news. As we stood in the living room of his new place on Arsenal Road, we heard a siren outside - the kind you’d hear if a tornado warning were issued. The forecast that evening called for a chance of thunderstorms. I was helping my brother move into a house in rural Wayne County on August 16, 1987. Editor’s note: the following is a first-person remembrance.
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